The Street Beneath My Feet by Charlotte Guillain

The colourful whole page images areĬlear with plenty to pour over and details to discuss. The final illustration on the back inside cover shows Railways, limestone caves and rivers, and coal mines before reaching theĮach page includes text around and within the illustrationsĮxplaining the elements created by human activity as well as plenty onįrom the centre of the earth the reverse of the concertina returnsīack through the depths with more whole page pictures of minerals, rocksĪnd fossils back to the surface, emerging through a wild landscape into Pipes, drains, cables, sewers, archaeological relics, underground TheĬoncertina arrangement of pages gradually reveals cross-sections of

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2017 The School Library Association 08 May. One side of the foldout shows the ground beneath the city, whilst the reverse side shows the ground beneath the countryside.

MLA style: 'Guillain, Charlotte: The Street Beneath My Feet.' The Free Library. This double-sided foldout book takes you on a fascinating journey deep underground.

The pictures are packed with detail, but each one says adventure-look, diamonds!-as much as education. The text is informative.including such nuggets as 'earthworms are expert recyclers, eating dead plants in the soil.' An unusual offering for the young geology nerd.'-Kirkus Reviews- Kirkus Reviews, A 2018 Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students: K-12 (National Science Teachers Association and the Children's Book Council) - NSTA-CBC, 'The earth science is simple but made glorious by the illustrations, homely and fantastic at once, as in a picture of a subway car, headlights streaming, above a layer of sedimentary rock and, further below, caves with spiky stalactites and stalagmites. Zommer's illustrations are a hive of subterranean activity, and Guillain's captionlike bursts enthuse about everything readers are seeing.'- Publishers Weekly, 'The painted, stenciled, and collaged illustrations are full-bleed, and the tones graduate pleasantly from light colors at the surface of the Earth to rich pinks, yellows, and oranges as readers near the Earth's core. 'A foldout, concertina format creates a visceral sense of a journey to the center of the Earth.

The Street Beneath My Feet by Charlotte Guillain